It's a long road back A film
Streaming video - 2014
This powerful documentary was made by Oomera (Coral) Edwards on Super 8mm film as a training exercise at the (then) Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies in Canberra. The film surveys the New South Wales policy of taking Aboriginal children from their families and putting them in institutions run by the Aborigines Welfare Board. From 1883 to 1969, this policy deprived generations of children of their Aboriginal identity. Oomera was one of these children, and she discusses her own struggle to regain her Aboriginality. The film also includes a moving interview with a former matron at an Aboriginal Welfare Home in Cootamundra, expressing her on-going concern that Aboriginal children were removed from their parents without any consultati...on or parental permission.--Kanopy.
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[San Francisco, California, USA] :
Kanopy Streaming
2014.
- Language
- English
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- Online Access
- A Kanopy streaming video
Cover Image - Item Description
- On cover: "The story of one woman's struggle to regain her Aboriginality".
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (1 video file, 13 min. 27 sec.) : digital, stereo., sound, color
- Format
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Access
- AVAILABLE FOR USE ONLY BY IOWA CITY AND RESIDENTS OF THE CONTRACTING GOVERNMENTS OF JOHNSON COUNTY, UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, HILLS, AND LONE TREE (IA).